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U.S. could stop nuclear waste transport over Great Lakes

By | 02.09.11 | 9:03 am | More from The Michigan Messenger

The U.S. Dept. of Transportation has the authority to block a controversial plan to ship radioactive waste over the Great Lakes.

Last week the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission approved a plan to ship 16-school bus sized steam generators from the Bruce Nuclear Station on Lake Huron More…

NAFTA Crew Rides Again to Remove High-Enriched Uranium From Mexico

By | 04.13.10 | 11:51 am

More “house gifts,” as Jeffrey Lewis of the New America Foundation calls them, from the Nuclear Security Summit, just announced by the White House:

At the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., Mexico, the United States, and Canada reached agreement to work together, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Iran Has Reportedly Rejected the Vienna Nuke Deal

By | 10.30.09 | 8:50 am

According to diplomats interviewed by The New York Times, Iran isn’t actually sending mixed messages on the deal reached in Vienna to process Iranian uranium outside the country and thereby put a year back on the clock counting down until Iran is likely to develop a nuclear bomb. It’s rejected More…

Iran Formally Seeks Changes to Uranium Deal

By | 10.29.09 | 11:37 am

As mentioned earlier this morning; now formally reported, per The Wall Street Journal:

Iran has formally asked for changes to an International Atomic Energy Agency proposal to ship nuclear fuel out of Iran for reprocessing abroad.

The response represents a setback in attempts by the international community to

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Ahmadinejad Warms to a Nuclear Deal

By | 10.29.09 | 8:46 am

Whether it’s the one the United States, France, Russia and the International Atomic Energy Agency are offering is a different story. But the Iranian “president” has told state TV, in advance of a formal response expected to come Friday, that the basis for cooperation on the nuclear question is More…

Iran Talks May Be Going Somewhere

By | 10.19.09 | 2:48 pm

We’re still waiting to hear what’s happening in Vienna, where Iran is negotiating with the international community over whether to allow 75 percent of its uranium to be sent out of the country to be reprocessed into fuel rods, a move that would significantly reduce Iran’s ability to construct More…

Iran Says It’s Ready to Negotiate on Nukes

By | 08.18.09 | 8:55 am

Via Laura Rozen, Reuters translates a report from Iranian state TV quoting the regime’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency saying “talks without preconditions is Iran’s main stance in negotiations on the nuclear issue.” So there it is: two months after apparently stealing the June 12 election, More…